Paper Monitor
12:21 UK time, Tuesday, 14 July 2009
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Oh, to suffer a slow death at the hands of a parliamentary sketch writer.
With pens sharpened and poised, they fire their acidic quips at the sitting duck (and perhaps island-owning) MPs as they rise to their feet to speak from the green benches of the Commons.
Today it's Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth in the firing line, as he defends military spending, although it's hard to think of him as a real person when he's described as in the Independent, and in the Times.
Quentin Letts in the Daily Mail says The Daily Telegraph notes that Mr Ainsworth drops his Hs, so speaks about "'elicopters". Does this mean his name is really Hainsworth?
At least there is some unity in the pillorying of the minister, which is more than can be said about the state of the housing market.
It's buoyant if you read or the .
But it's in the doldrums if you read or the .
So which is it? Perhaps Roy Hattersley's dog Buster will turn his paws to a column unpicking numbers in the news next...
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